Confusion and sheer loneliness drove him on, though his search seemed more and more hopeless.

Was the sheer loneliness of Blade's profession also catching up with him?

Such afflictions are occasioned mainly, I believe, by the sheer loneliness of keeping secrets.

Out of sheer loneliness, she has fallen in love with her stodgy boss at the mill.

Drake knew that the man would give in eventually from sheer loneliness, but it took a year longer.

But he says he cannot help but break the rules out of sheer loneliness.

And perhaps Henry had been so hungry for a friend that sheer loneliness drove him to accept Chris' overtures.

There are a lot of places on the Moon that by their sheer stark loneliness set your teeth on edge.

Hunger and in juries, if not sheer loneliness, should have killed him long ago.

Then the sheer loneliness of his situation rushed upon him in full.